Paul Negri has twice won the gold medal for fiction in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Writing Competition. His stories have appeared in print and on line in The Penn Review, Into the Void, Gemini Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Jellyfish Review, Bone & Ink Zine and many other publications. He lives and writes in Clifton, New Jersey.
That first half year in the parish of Santo Sebástian, Father Ambrose was afraid. He feared the vast New Mexican spaces beyond the church door; he feared the scorpions he was told might sometimes hide ...